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“The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.”

Ifs Needs Mind Two Action Hours Duty Flow Currents Midst

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.”

Two Information Example Design Mass Flow Property Currents Features Heat Fluid

Book:Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

Source: Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

“I've always noticed how the Fenway fans get behind the pitcher, especially late in the game if you're having a good game, or if you have two strikes on a hitter, they really start to chant and anticipate a strikeout. And that's the best part about playing in Boston and at Fenway. There are knowledgeable fans who anticipate the flow of the game and they can really help out the pitcher.”

Ifs Two Helping Games Behinds Fans Late Flow Strikes Boston Anticipate Pitcher Knowledgeable Strikeouts

Author:David Cone

“All motion consists of two components. One component serves inwardness (internalisation) and the other outwardness (dispersion). Both preconditions for motion regulate the eternal flow of metamorphosis (panta Rhei).”

Two Eternal Flow Components Metamorphosis Dispersion

Book:The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series

“The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.”

“When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.”

Ifs Looks Two Self Jobs Careers Like You Flow Logic Bigger Stores Anchors Malls Self Contained

Author:Chris Hardwick

“A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.”

Life Two Moments Change Grace Bed Flow Rivers Essence Ultimate Musical Extremes Surface Symbols Life Changing Pathways Accommodate Explosives Two Extremes

Book:The River of Winged Dreams

Source: The River of Winged Dreams

“Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide as it was two years ago. But in lending the differences are still very large, and in some countries the credit flow is disrupted.”

Years Stills Two Country Differences Cost Europe Areas Years Ago Flow Financial Credit Wide Two Years Gaps Funding Euro Lending Fragmented Financial System Two Years Ago

Author:Mario Draghi

“I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.”

Ifs Thinking Two Actors Energy Minutes Position Flow Cameras Lighting

Author:Cristian Mungiu

“There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.”

World Two Facts Seems Might Form Political Belief Interest Religious Poor Rich Equal Flow Injustice Disappointment Violent Realization Etc Unjust Religious Belief

Book:Impossible Objects

Source: Impossible Objects

“All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.”

Knows Way Two Play Leader Influence Communication Elements Flow Unconscious Followers Interaction Two Ways Constituents Nonverbal

Book:Leadership: An Overview

Source: Leadership: An Overview

“Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.”

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“You know, to me, that's going to influence the culture. They both influence each other - I know that - but, you know, there's no two ways about it. When you're just immersed in kind of this dark, edgy constant flow of entertainment, there's no way it can't affect you. There's just no way.”

Knows Way Kind Two Culture Dark Influence Flow Constant Entertainment Two Ways Edgy

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?”

Ifs Thinking Believe Doe Two Genius Hundred Flow Don't Believe Come Up Life Time

Author:Tracii Guns

“The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.”

Men Two Communication Mountain Messages Flow Currents Protection Senses Psychological Subtle Disposition Extensions Connecting Rope Wire Transmit Tactile Nylon

Book:The Eiger Sanction: A Novel

Source: The Eiger Sanction: A Novel

“Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.”

Writing Two Ideas Real Dream Seems Next Bits Teach Teaching Habit Balance Exercise Eating News Aspect Flow Letters Wake Up Coffee Etc Breakfast Lunch Journal Woven Ipods

Author:Kevin Keck

“When I make music, it takes me two hours to get into the flow. To me it's like tapping into some kind of subconscious frequency: I just have to turn everything else off, open up part of myself, expose my fears and try to work through it in the music that I'm making.”

Trying Kind Two Turns Hours Flow Take Me Subconscious Frequency Tapping

Author:DJ Shadow

“It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Two Ideas Stories Might Easy Understanding Reader Scene Skills Fairs Flow Narrative Clue Protagonists Ebb And Flow

Author:Dennis Green

“The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.”

Thinking Way Two Opportunity Technology Economy Growing Percent Flow Trade Investment Rate Enormous Chinese Indian Two Ways

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I just think that's the most amazing thing to be able to go to places like Japan and surf all day and then that night, play music. It's never been one of those things that's disrupted the flow of one and other, they've just enhanced one and other. It's incredible. It's beautiful that I found these two things that help each other out.”

Thinking Two Play Helping Able Beautiful Night Found Flow Incredibles Two Things Japan Amazing Things Surf Most Amazing Helping Each Other

Author:Donavon Frankenreiter

“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”

Life Inspirational Two Concerned Flow Curiosity Appearance Surface Permanent Odd Momentary Beneath The Surface Consecutive

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.”

Thinking Made Two Important Flow Accidents Factors Made It Revolutionary Introducing Traffic Lanes Mph

Author:John Prescott

“The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.”

Ifs Two Would Be Sweet Flow Rivers Bounds Flood

Author:Vinoba Bhave

“Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.”

Knows Two Young Sports Parent Growing Up Growing Advice Flow Athlete Coaches Ice Skating Guidelines Great Coach Great Advice

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.”

Ifs Thinking Two Reason Feelings Passion Activity Intellectual Flow Function Rational Torn Neurotic Thoughts And Feelings Rational Thought Torn Apart Schizoid

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-”

Knows World Wells Kind Two Dream Seems Happens Flow Spread Two Things Our World Usual Rainbow Other Worlds

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”

“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.”

“At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.”

“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!”

Firsts Children Two Running Together Causes Nice Mankind Tears Flow Moved Grass Unbearable Succession Lightness Kitsch Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.”

Giving Humans Two Body Energy Human Nature Materials Birth Flow Painful Bliss Estrangement

Author:Adrienne Rich

“What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.”

Firsts Two Hard Gone Flow Sentences Stuck

Author:Joan Didion

“You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.”

Source: Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters

“Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow the law, follow the natural course. Don't be unnatural, don't try to fight with nature - stop being a fighter. Learn how to relax with nature, learn to let go. Flow with nature, allow nature to possess you totally.”

Trying Mind Two Law Fighting Courses Process Natural Watches Meditation Becoming Letting Go Flow Fighter Witness Two Things Relax Spectators Unnatural Thought Process Learn To Let Go

Author:Rajneesh

“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.”

Ifs Years Two War Certain Fighting Force Five Blood Military Victory Years Ago Flow Destruction Twenties France Germany Five Years Twenty Five Barbarism

Author:Edouard Daladier

“Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding; improve our intelligence; strengthen our defenses; counter its warped ideology; and stem the flow of foreign fighters into - and out of - the Middle East. And in two weeks, I will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council to further mobilize the international community around this effort.”

“It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.”

Two Facts Reality Together Lasts Spiritual Spirit Found Goal Interest United Common Clear Fields Bed Flow Currents Streams Flash Psychiatry Illumination Collision

Author:Carl Jung

“I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.”

“I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.”

Thinking Men Way Two Ends Sound Mistake Music Records Heard Flow Guitar Eruption Guitar Music Guitar Sound

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.”

Two Our Lives Flow

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.”

Mind May Long Two Ideas Conscious Flow Remains Familiar Spells Unspoken Spoken Word Two Minds

Book:Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography